FAITH CAPSULE: With distance from the word of God is to be opened to false engagement.

Jeremiah 2

One that is in a distant position from God will be close to what is not of God.
Consciously or consciously, are you in a distant position from God or close to God? 
Taking to a distant position from God is far from the word of God. 
With distance from the word of God is to become open to false. 
Taking to a distant position from God is walking far from the word to miss out on the direction of God. 
To walk far from God will lead to falling and failure. 
The word of God is God. 
God is a jealous God that is not to go far from Him.
Are you walking far from God?
God spoke through Jeremiah to the children of Israel, “…What injustice have your fathers found in Me, that they have gone far from Me, have followed idols, and have become idolaters? Neither did they say, ‘Where is the LORD, who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, Who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, through a land of drought and the shadow of death, through a land that no one crossed and where no one dwelt?’” (Jeremiah 2:4-6) 
Know that God is a jealous God. 
Acknowledge God always, give Him continuous attention, and identify Him for seeing you through from the past to the present.
God spoke through Jeremiah that the children of Israel had failed to do right by not identifying Him for the past and not acknowledging Him for the present.
One that takes a distant position from the word of God, the rebellious act will take charge in the life of such before God. 
God wants all to hear and receive His word to heart. 
God said to Ezekiel, “Son of man, receive into your heart all My words that I speak to you, and hear with your ears.” (Ezekiel 3:10) 
Do you have an opening ear?
An opening ear shall give a place to gain the direction of the word of God into the heart.
In the heart is the place for the word of God to become established.
The point here is for all to give attention to the word of God by allowing the ear to give preference to the word of God. 
With attention in place for the word to enter, see in the word of God, to gain direction shall become the portion of one opened to the word of God. Find time to attend and listen to the word of God, gain understanding, and begin to see and receive direction from God. 
Get close to God by opening to His word, the only way to live by His direction.

Prayer for today: Ask to gain and maintain a close position in the word of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Watch out, do not look outside the direction of God.

1 Samuel 13

Looking away from God is taking a position away from God. 
It is a wrong decision not to be in a position for God. 
Life is a journey, do not take to a position outside of God, and do not become derailed or terminated not to arrive expected end-of-life journey.
Terah, the father of Abraham, looked away from God in his journey.
Genesis 11:31 records, “Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Harran, they settled there.” 
Terah, the father of Abraham, must have a reason to have an engaging journey to Canaan.
However, Terah did not live to arrive at Canaan because he decided to settle in Harran, where he later died.
Why are you looking away from arriving at the expected manifestation? 
Terah looked away from getting to Canaan.
God called Abraham to Canaan.
Unlike Terah, Abraham did not look away from the calling of God over his life to Canaan. 
Turning away from God is not focusing on God to miss the direction of God. 
The wife of Lot turned away from the direction of her journey of deliverance into a journey of self-destruction. 
When it was time for God to judge Sodom and Gomorrah, He called Lot and his house out of destruction.
Genesis 19:26 records, “As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!” (Genesis 19:17) Condition for escape was not only to flee but also not to look back. However, Lot’s wife made a wrong decision to look back against the word of God and she became permanently terminated. The word recorded, “But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.” 
Making a decision that seems right in the place of the direction of God is a set for self-destruction. 
Proverbs 14:12 buttresses, “There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.” 
Let your decision be rooted in the word of God and not be a victim of self-decision.
The decision of King Saul was what seemed right to him to disobey the command of God.
Against the Philistines, Saul disobeyed not to wait for a burnt offering in response to the action of the Israelites.
1Samuel 13:6 records, “…the Israelites saw that their situation was critical and that their army was hard pressed, they hid in caves and thickets…”  
Saul made a wrong decision by burnt offering against the command of God.
Saul could not wait for God and did not arrive for God.

Prayer for today: Ask to remain focused on God for His direction all the days He has given you.

FAITH CAPSULE: The gift of God for all not to miss heaven when the trumpet sounds.

1 John 4:1-42

The gift of God for all is to inherit eternal life. 
The gift of God to all is an indescribable gift! 
The gift of God is yet to settle in for many to receive or believe fully accepting the gift.
The gift of God that is received, living for God is evidence of one that unwraps the gift of God.
All should understand and know the indescribable gift of God to appreciate the gift of God.
All must be meditating day and night that God wants all to inherit eternal life and not be a victim of failure, not have eternal life. 
Jesus alone is the indescribable gift of God. 
Jesus revealed Himself as the gift of God when a Samaritan woman had an encounter with Jesus. 
John 4:10 documents, “Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”  
God, the giver of all good, expects all to give back to Him in appreciation. All should give back to God an unconditional love for His gift because He is a jealous God. 
To love God is to fear God by doing good all through, to the glory of God. Claiming to love to fear God is living obediently to the command of God.
Apostle Paul points out that the purpose of the commandment is to love God. 
1Timothy 1:5-6 records, “Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith, from which some, having strayed, have turned aside to idle talk.” 
Paul was talking about the love that counts before God. 
Love before God is love that is worthy to provoke the attention of God to acknowledge obedient ones for His good.
Today ask yourself, “What shall I do to inherit eternal life.” 
It is a crucial question to be holding all, provoking all for doing good at best and not at less before God. 
Living a righteous life is a command from the word of God, doing at best before God. 
The word of Jesus speaks to all, “For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 5:20) 
The scribes and Pharisees know about the word of God.
Did they live life according to the word of God?
Are you an acclaimed believer of God with the word of God in the head, with no mind occupied by the word of God, and far from God? 
Live life for God, and embrace the indescribable gift of God.
Know and understand not to miss eternal life.

Prayer for today: Ask to enable living life for God and not to miss eternal life.

FAITH CAPSULE: With impossibility in place, God is in a position for possibility.

Luke 9:10-17, John 2:1-11, 

Invite the presence of Jesus to convert mockery to a miracle.
Matthew 19:26 records the word of Jesus, “…With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”  
With God, there is no impossibility. 
With God, challenges of the past and the present is possible for God to convert all to the celebration. 
With trust and hope in the name of God, impossibility shall become possible.
With God, all that is impossible shall answer as the possibility of God. 
God is the Ancient of Days, the only God that dwells in unapproachable light and is in a position to reverse irreversible for good to the glory of God.
There is no challenge that God cannot change to the celebration. 
No situation is too late for God to settle and establish for good. 
With trust and hope, God alone reverses irreversible.
Ridicule was in the place to mock weddings in Cana of Galilee, but the presence of Jesus was in place to convert mockery into a miracle. At the wedding, the wine finished setting the celebration to become a mockery for the new couple. 
Is it possible that your marriage is running out of oil that burns the fire of God that is the joy of marriage?
For the new couple, the presence of Jesus converted the challenge into a celebration.
At the wedding of Cana of Galilee, the mother of Jesus spoke to Jesus, “…They have no wine” (John 2:3) 
The response of Jesus states, “Woman, what does your concern have to do with Me? My hour has not yet come.” (John 2:4) 
The mother of Jesus could not be discouraged from calling for the intervention of Jesus for a miracle to deny mockery. 
In John 2:5, the mother of Jesus said to the servants, “Whatever He says to you, do it.” 
With obedience to the direction of Jesus, there will be a way to arrive at an expected end. 
With impossibility in place, God is in a position for possibility.
At the feeding of five thousand, the disciples asked for the multitude to depart because there was no possibility for provision in the desert ground. 
Jesus intervened that the multitudes get fed from five loaves and two available fish. 
The request seemed impossible when Jesus gave His word to His disciples in the place of about five thousand men stating, “Make them sit down in groups of fifty.” (Luke 9:14) 
Obey His direction fully to experience His miracle in place of mockery.
Have you disobeyed the commands of God?  
Luke 9:15 records, “And they did so, and made all sit down.” 
In response to the obedience of His direction, He blessed the five loaves and two fish, and the multitude ate in abundance. 
With God, nothing is impossible. 

Prayer for today: Ask that you trust and hope in the word of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Self-assumption will lead outside of the direction of God.

Genesis 19

Every God-created day is a journey with the plan of God to keep one in His way. 
The way of God is His word for all to follow through and not be wasted. Ignoring and disobeying God will set one up consciously or unconsciously outside of the plan of God. 
Self-assumption is an avenue to self-destruction. 
There is no reasonable excuse to disobey the plan of God for all. Proverbs 13:13 states for the wise as a warning “He who despises the word will be destroyed, but he who fears the commandment will be rewarded.” 
Walking outside of God is also evidence of giving self to self assumption, not to the plan of God.
Come out of self-assumption into the plan of God that will get obedient to a divine assignment for life.
Are you a man with self-assumption or self-determination to engage in self-assignment? 
The way that that seems right to one can lead to death. Proverbs 14:12 warns, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.” 
Determination to depend on self-assumption will take one to step outside the plan of God. 
A specified direction of God was His plan for the family of Lot. 
Encased in the direction for Lot and his family were deliverance and preservation to keep them from destruction.
The book of Genesis 19:17 records, “So it came to pass when they had brought them outside, that he said, ‘escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed.’” 
The wife of Lot took to self-assumption.
Genesis 19:26 records the consequence, “But his wife looked back behind him and she became a pillar of salt.” 
In her journey, she looked back against the will of God, and she could not further but wasted in life.
The wife of Lot died in disobedience. 
Every determination outside of God is evidence of the spirit of disobedience in life to the will of God. 
Are you finding it difficult to obey the direction of God? 
Your determination will fail. 
1Samuel 2:9 says that “by strength shall no man prevail.” 
Ask God to give you the strength to go by His will in the life journey, not to be a failure.          
Determination with desire will enable one not to fail in the will of God.
Self-determination made Peter deny Jesus three times, but the seed of prayer of Jesus was in place to deliver Peter. Luke 22:32 states, “But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren.”  
Avoid self-assumption and self-determination that is outside of God.

Prayer for today: Ask for the word of God to be established in your life.